People constantly complaining about the Media Bias Fact Check bot are more annoying than the bot (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 3 months ago by undefined@links.hackliberty.org to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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People complaining about the bot are worse than the bot itself. Every comment thread or post about it (probably including this one) inevitably turns into people debating the bot’s usefulness.

If you’re someone who hates the bot, do what everyone has already said 10 trillion times: block it.

All the comment threads and posts by users wanting to “take it down” solve nothing. Just stop. It’s so irritating having to scroll past millions of comments of the same tired debate.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 months ago

I'm surprised we haven't seen an alternative news community on another instance than Lemmyworld and lemmy.ml emerge as an alternative without such bot.

Seems like the LW mods/admins don't want to change their opinion on the bot, so the expected reaction would be to see people leave those communities for others.

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago

People just like complaining. They honestly just have too much free time

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Just remembered there is !globalnews@lemmy.zip

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds reasonable

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